Tag: Government

Aurora government, Dunham, to provide funds to Paramount

By Jason Crane At the Aurora city government Committee of the Whole (COW) meeting Tuesday through the Zoom video conference platform, the City Council members gave unanimous consent to a resolution to authorize the mayor and City treasurer to complete loan documents and agreements required to complete the grant of...

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Incentives, sanctions, may work better than wishful thinking

President Joe Biden is proposing to spend more money than I knew existed, on infrastructure and children, families, free college, and much more. I am not opposed to spending all that money, so long as it is aimed at improving our Nation’s weak educational and social outcomes, and so long...

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Illinois moves to Phase 5 from Phase 4

Beginning Friday, May 14, the State of Illinois entered a new pathway from Phase 4 COVID-19 Mitigations to a full reopening in Phase 5. The “Bridge to Phase 5” will allow for higher capacity limits and increased business operations. As the public continues to get vaccinated, governor JB Pritzker announced...

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Freedoms diminished by government police brute force

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Rule by brute force. That’s about as good a description as you’ll find for the sorry state of our nation. SWAT teams crashing through doors. Militarized police shooting unarmed citizens. Traffic cops tasering old men and pregnant women for not complying fast enough...

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Abolish the U.S. Senate to enhance ‘we the people’

“When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitles them,...

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Police danger real threat, especially by U.S. Marshals

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead The government should not be in the business of killing its citizens. Nevertheless, the U.S. government continues to act as judge, jury, and executioner, over a populace that has been pre-judged and found guilty, stripped of its rights, and left to suffer at...

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Real threat in the U.S.: Corrupt governments seek full control

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “Children are being targeted and sold for sex in America every day.” —John Ryan, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Even in the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic, there’s no stopping this year’s Super Bowl LV showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs...

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Independent government groups could help draw districts

The dance of democracy continues this year with the once-a-decade ritual of drawing new State legislative and congressional district lines in Illinois and across the Nation. In two-thirds of the states, including Illinois, the legislators draw the lines. It means the party in power draws maps that favor incumbents and...

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Freedom still rests with ‘We the people’, not police state

By John W. Whitehead The Christmas story of a baby born in a manger is a familiar one. The Roman Empire, a police state in its own right, had ordered that a census be conducted. Joseph and his pregnant wife, Mary, traveled to the little town of Bethlehem so that...

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North Aurora Board votes against amendment

By Jason Crane The North Aurora Village Board, through the Zoom video conference platform, voted against a third amendment to the annexation agreement for the Moose Lake Estates subdivision at the Board meeting Monday. The Board has spent many hours receiving input from dozens of residents since the October 19,...

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On stealing the U.S. election

By Bela (Bill) Suhayda Stealing this or any election is not a risky proposition for Democrats. Media joins them in running interference… even “blacking out” (censorship by omission) the fraud that continues to be the 2020 election, along with a host of other corrupt activity. Dems stole their own primary...

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Statewide Tier 3 Mitigation as of November 20

With a new wave of COVID-19 surging across Illinois, governor JB Pritzker announced the entire State of Illinois will be under Tier 3 Mitigations as of Friday, Nov. 20, with a number of areas/industries being placed “on pause” until further notice and others still remaining open, but with additional restrictions....

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Four Sangamon County restaurants ordered closed temporarily for violating COVID-19 mitigations

By Sarah Mansur Four restaurants in Sangamon County that continued to offer indoor dining in defiance of governor J.B. Pritzker’s COVID-19 mitigation plan were ordered to shut down temporarily Tuesday. The order from a Sangamon County judge states that the four restaurants, Charlie Parker’s Diner, D&J Cafe, Sweet Basil Cafe,...

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U.S. government’s crusade against many veterans derogatory

By John Whitehead The 2020 presidential election may be over, but nothing really has changed. The U.S. government still poses the greatest threat to our freedoms. More than terrorism, more than domestic extremism, more than gun violence and organized crime, even more than the perceived threat posed by any single...

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When We the People sleep, survivors include the tyrants

By John W. Whitehead Things are falling apart. How much longer we can sustain the fiction that we live in a constitutional republic, I cannot say, but anarchy is being loosed upon the Nation. We are witnessing the unraveling of the American dream one injustice at a time. Day after...

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Election officials urge voters to turn in mail ballots now

By Peter Hancock Heading into the final weekend before Election Day, Illinois voters continue to set records for advance voting, and election officials are urging anyone who has not yet turned in their mail ballot to do so as quickly as possible. “Whether you do that by mail, or by...

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Voting on judges important

An often overlooked piece of our November ballots is the retention of judges. Politicians’ stances on issues and job performance are very public. Judges are cloistered away in courtrooms and should be non-partisan, at least in theory. So how is the voting public to decide whether to retain a particular...

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Future of ‘we the people’ fixed to hard work, Constitution

By John W. Whitehead And so it begins again, the never-ending, semi-delusional, train-wreck of an election cycle in which the American people allow themselves to get worked up into a frenzy over the misguided belief that the future of this Nation, nay, our very lives, depends on who we elect...

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What ever label, A-to-Z, results: Tyranny

By John W. Whitehead While America continues to fixate on the drama-filled reality show scripted by the powers-that-be, directed from the Nation’s Capital, and played out in high definition across the country, the American Police State has moved steadily forward. Nothing has changed. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a convenient,...

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Aid for struggling small businesses to start flowing

By Peter Hancock Financial aid is about to start flowing for Illinois businesses that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity published emergency rules this week to implement the Business Interruption Grant program, or BIG. Those rules took effect July 21 when they...

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